The secret Irishman likely behind bitcoin, the internet currency code

The new currency called bitcoin on the net was invented by an Irishman
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The mysterious figure who created a new currency called bitcoin on the net that has intrigued millions around the globe is very likely a 23-year old Irish student named Michael Clear, ‘The New Yorker’ magazine has revealed.

Speaking to IrishCentral the young man vehemently denied that he is the bitcoin's creator. An online currency could easily threaten major currencies and is a major crime in the US where it is a violation of federal law.

In the New Yorker's lead story, writer Joshua Davis describes an exhaustive search to find the creator of the world’s first cryptocoded on-line currency which already has $35 million dollars in bitcoins in circulation. It is growing by leaps and bounds.

The given name of the founder of bitcoin claimed to be Satoshi Nakamoto, a 36-year-old Japanese man who invented bitcoins on January 3rd 2009.

But Davis discovered that it was highly unlikely that such a person ever existed. there are only about 300 professional cryptocoders in the world and no one had ever heard of Nakamoto.

Instead Davis attended a meeting of the top encoders in the world, held in Santa Barbra, California this summer.